... description of the troubles and challenges that he faced growing up as a slave in Maryland and insight into his development from a slave to a freedman by utilizing slave narrative techniques to produce sympathy and understanding. The narrative follows several themes as readers struggle through Douglass' difficult words, from the physical, mental, sexual abuse that served as a bind of slavery to the use of ignorance ... slave-owners would employ against their slaves. Abuse was not uncommon towards slaves on the nineteenth century and was used as a method of suppression. Frederick Douglas...

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